Biography

Hello Death released their third full-length album, “For Those With Many Hearts” on June 23, 2018. Recorded over a cold rainy weekend, in a barn called Speckled Chemistry Studios, the songs look alternately down from a mountain and up from a hole to explore themes of time, love, decay, growth, memory, and resolve. “Moody folk outfit Hello Death excels at sparse, haunting music that works it’s way into your bones like a winter chill…the group doesn’t so much perform folk music as suggest it; Allschwang’s gorgeously airy alto, Heuer’s Nick Cave-esque baritone, and the group’s stripped down instrumentation combine to form a sound that seems to pre -date music itself”. – Milwaukee Record
Hello Death’s self-titled debut was recorded in 2012, the early days of April Base Studio in Fall Creek, WI. In the fall of 2013 they released “Hello Death” on vinyl, silencing a sold-out crowd at the Pabst Theater in Milwaukee while opening for Volcano Choir. The set closed with “Footsteps”, a song that perfectly encapsulates the strange balance Hello Death has cultivated, as a myriad of instruments and vocal qualities cross paths to form a sound that is so singularly foreboding. -Mezzic